Past Exhibition
Odyssey Europe
A Magnum group exhibition in Germany highlighting stories of exile and refuge since the 1940s to today
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Moises Saman Along the Turkish-Syrian border in Hatay Province. Under the cover of night a network of Syrian smugglers transport a family fleeing the violence inside Syria on a rowboat across the Orentes River, (...)
which marks a stretch of the border between northern Syria and southern Turkey. Since the start of the Syrian conflict in March of 2011 over 11,000 Syrian refugees have fled the country and are now living in refugee camps along the Turkish border. Turkey. March 2, 2012. © Moises Saman | Magnum Photos
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Erich Lessing Hungarian refugees fleeing the National insurgency in a temporary shelter. By December 1956, 155,000 refugees had crossed the Austro-Hungarian border while about 67,000 stayed in Austria. Town of A (...)
ndau, Austro-Hungarian border. Austria. 1956. © Erich Lessing | Magnum Photos
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Patrick Zachmann A boat coming from Libya has been spotted and caught by the coast guards (Costiera Guardia) 35 miles away from Lampedusa. They escorted it till the port where coast-guards, police, Protezione Civil (...)
e, ambulances, buses, Red Cross and other NGOs were expecting the boat and the migrants. There were 158 persons, including 22 women and children who came from several African countries. Only some are political refugees. Most of them left their native countries for economic reasons and were trapped in Libya. They all, without any distinction of their countries of origins, will be very quickly sent away from Lampedusa to different parts of Italy, where they will be able to stay for six months. Few of them will go back to their country. They will continue their epic trip to France, Holland, Germany, Denmark or Sweden. The whole operation of disembarkation, counting of the migrants and transfer into buses is extremely well organized and quickly done. A person in charge told the photographer: "Have you seen how fast we operate from their boat to the buses? Then, tourists don't see them." Lampedusa. Italy. July 8, 2011. © Patrick Zachmann | Magnum Photos
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Moises Saman An exhausted and weak Yazidi child rests next to makeshift tents set up in a camp for displaced Yazidis on the outskirts of Derek, a Kurdish-controlled town in Syria that is located at the foot of (...)
the Sinjar Mountains along the border between Iraq and Syria.Thousands of Yazidi families have fled their villages in the Sinjar region of northern Iraq and sought refugee in the nearby mountains as ISIS militants moved into their area. The only way for this families to reach the safety of Kurdish-controlled northern Iraq is through a safe corridor in Syria that is controlled by Syrian-Kurdish militias. Derek, Syria. August 10, 2014. © Moises Saman | Magnum Photos
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Odyssey Europe features 50 photographs produced over seven decades documenting people in exile since the end of World War II. The exhibition features over 20 Magnum photographers and is in collaboration with Zeitenspiegel-Reportageschule Günter Dahl.
You can find more information on the Odyssey Europe website.





















Commission a Magnum photographer
Fine Collectors’ Prints
Abbas , Arts & Culture , Bruno Barbey , Cristina García Rodero , David Seymour , Dennis Stock , Erich Lessing , Exhibition , Ferdinando Scianna , Jérôme Sessini , John Vink , Jonas Bendiksen , Michael Christopher Brown , Moises Saman , Nikos Economopoulos , Paolo Pellegrin , Patrick Zachmann , Peter van Agtmael , Raymond Depardon , René Burri , Robert Capa , Thomas Dworzak , Werner Bischof